I can't believe I almost forgot this! You MUST subscribe to the following periodical "magazines":

Mother Earth News
GRIT

Those two magazines are packed with practical information.

As a side, you can also order, on CD, all of the back articles from MEN. We have, forty years I think, on CD from a special offer they gave several years ago.

JYD #123 The great one formerly known as Architect.

I am now a fictional British television police officer (currently a Detective Sgt) at Thames Valley Station. My governor is Detective Inspector Fred Thursday and it’s 1969.